2000 John Milford, actor, dies at 70 1999 Pee Wee Reese, American Athlete 1996 Camilla Horn, actress (Rebus, Vertigine, Matinee Idol), dies at 93 1996 Sergiu Celibidache, conductor, dies at 84 1996 Uzo Egonu, painter/print maker, dies at 64 1995 Joseph Fattorini, businessman, dies at 82 1994 Bill Cowley, creator (Lyke Wake Walk), dies at 78 1994 Elias Canetti, Bulgaria/British author (Nobel 1981), dies at 89 1994 Joan Harrison, English producer/Alfred Hitchcock's sect, dies at 83 1994 Patrick Meehan, petty Criminal, dies at 67 1994 Tom Greenshields, sculptor, dies at 79 1993 Francis Mankiewicz, Canad director (Lesson bons debarras), dies at 49 1992 Alexander Rosemeier, Indonesian/Dutch painter, dies at 104 1992 Flora SA Benson, U.S., wife of President Ezra Taft B of mormon church, dies 1992 John J Sirica, U.S., judge (Watergate), dies at 88 1992 Marion P Ames, U.S., advocate/activist, dies 1992 Tony Williams, U.S., singer (Platters-Great Pretender), dies at 64 1991 Douglas Kiker, newscaster (NBC-TV), dies of a heart attack at 61 1988 Enzo Ferrari, Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari), dies at 90 1985 Gale Sondergaard, actress (Letter), dies of cerebral thrombosis at 86 1984 John Boynton Priestley, English, stagewriter (Magicians), dies at 89 1984 Peter Charles Arthur Wishart, composer, dies at 63 1984 Tigran Petroshan, Russian chess grand master, dies at 55 1984 J. B. Priestley, British Writer 1982 Patrick Magee, Irish actor (Clockwork Orange, King Lear), dies at 58 1981 Karl Bohm, Austria conductor, dies at 86 1980 Dorothy Stratten, Playmate, murdered by boyfriend Paul Snider 1978 Nicolas Bentley, British Author 1976 Werner Braunig, writer, dies 1975 Joris Baers, Flemish bibliographer (founder Boekengids), dies at 87 1972 Jules Romains, French novelist (Death of Nobody), dies at 86 1972 Oscar Levant, actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life), dies at 65 1972 Pierre Brasseur, French actor (Quai des Brumes), dies at 66 1971 Georg von Opel, German auto manufacturer, dies at 59 1970 Vano Il'ich Muradeli, composer, dies at 62 1969 Leonard Sidney Woolf, English publisher/writer, dies at 88 1969 Sigrid Gurie, actor (3 Faces West, Algiers), dies at 58 1969 Leonard Woolf, British Author 1966 S J "Tip" Snooke, South Africa cricket all-rounder (26 Tests 1905-23), dies 1965 Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet and writer (Walk at Dawn), dies 1963 Clifford Odets, U.S. playwright (Golden Boy), dies at 57 1961 Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds), dies at 68 1961 Guido Alberto Fano, composer, dies at 86 1961 Henri-Edouard-Prosper Breuil, priest/archaeologist, dies 1961 Learned Hand, American Judge 1958 Big Bill Broonzy, rocker, dies of cancer at 65 1958 Frederic Joliot-Curie, French nuclear physicist (Nobel 1936), dies 1958 Gladys L Presley, mom of Elvis, dies at 46 1958 Mary Ritter Beard, American historian, dies at 82 1956 Bertold Brecht, German writer (Mother Courage), dies at 58 1956 Freiherr Constantine von Neurath, German Foreign Minister (1932-38), dies 1956 Bertolt Brecht, German Poet 1955 Fiske Kimball, U.S. architect/art historian, dies at 66 1951 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills 1949 Husni al-Barazi, premier of Syria, shot to death 1949 Husni el-Zaim, president/dictator of Syria, shot to death 1946 Susan St. James, Susan Jane Miller, Los Angeles California, actress (Kate and Allie) 1941 Josef Jakobs, German spy, executed in Tower of London 1941 Milhaly Babits, Hungarians literary (Golyakalifa), dies at 57 1938 Landon Ronald, composer/pianist, dies at 65 1937 Sapper, British soldier/novelist (Bull-Dog Drummond), dies at 48 1936 Rainey Bethea, hanged, last U.S. public execution 1932 Rin Tin Tin, U.S. Hollywood-dog, dies 1928 Klabund, Alfred Henschke, German writer (Spuk/Rasputin), dies at 37 1923 Jacob T Cremer, President (Dutch Handel-Mij), dies at 76 1922 Alfred CW Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe/newspaper magnate, dies 1922 Lord Northcliffe, British Publisher 1905 Mohammed Abdoe, Egyptian writing expert (Al'Oerwah al-Woethka), dies 1887 Richard Jeffries, naturalist/essayist, dies 1884 Arnoldus Pannevis, South African shipping agent/linguist, dies at 46 1870 David [James] Glasgow Farragut, admiral, dies 1867 Niccola Benvenuti, composer, dies at 84 1863 Colin Campbell, British officer (Cawnpore), dies at 70 1858 George Combe, phrenologist, dies 1856 William Buckland, dean (Westminister)/geologist, dies 1844 Henry Francis Cary, translator (Dante), dies 1841 Johann F Herbart, German philosopher (General Padagogik), dies at 65 1834 Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer, dies at 63 1833 Luigi Cagnola, architect, dies 1794 George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies 1788 Thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer (Intelligencer), dies 1785 John William Fletcher, evangelist, dies 1778 Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies 1763 Giovanni Battista Somis, composer, dies at 76 1727 William Croft, composer, dies at 48 1652 Abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 60 1587 Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer, dies at 49 1433 Johan I, king of Portugal (1383-1433), dies at 76 1167 Raynald van Dassel, archbishop of Cologne, dies
